Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 29, 2014

People with no life staring back at you?

Is the future rated NC-17?

Mighty Mouse (rat). He’s holding that heavy window pane too easily.

I wonder if he saw a pulled pork barbecue sandwich?

It’s the Total Perspective Vortex! Only one person can survive it…

And Pastis invents the Fifth Wall for comics.

Probably the best strip from them in a long time. The addition of the fourth wall causes Pig to think "OMG! I’m going to be a smart, serious teenager who prefers to listen to Eurovision music in my next life! (Me)

I can only see rat and pig through the window.

You’re supposed to chant as you look through it: “Romper, Stomper, Bomper, Boo, Tell Me, Tell Me, Tell Me, Do.”

The opposite of “slow glass” in science fiction, as in the 1966 short story “Light of Other Days” by Bob Shaw.

Nobody needs this kind of pane in their life!

The Days of Future Passed…

Rat, playing mind tricks on Pig again

I see a lot of headless folks out there!

That dumb Pig saw through “The Window of the Future”, that he married Pigita, after all.

It always boggles my mind (which ain’t all that difficult) to think that everything we see, everything, happened in the past. Light might be darn fast, but it isn’t infinitely fast. So whatever image you are seeing took some amount of time to reach your eyes.

Pig is suffering from TMI.

Just don’t take the tour through the Sugardale plant.

@firebrand1—But Pig has made his love of BLTs very clear!

It’s MS Windows 13.

If you had one, would you look? I don’t think I would… or maybe… hell I don’t know!

Golly! What did Pig see? And how does Rat avoid a similar fate?

Did Pig see himself getting roasted on a spit?

xxx

This is easily the most PANE-ful strip Steph ever drew!

Anyone who uses Window(s) 8.1 is in trouble.

I think Pig saw us…

Are the hills more jagged over there?

As Twain said, suicide would be far more common if people could know what their future would be in advance.

He probably saw the snout of the pup from Little Dog Lost screaming “It’s BACON!” ;-)

I see he saw 2020

What’s scary is that Steph predicted this from almost 6 years ago, the menace known as 2020.

He could have warned us about Covid-19. With that reaction that must be what he saw